Corporate Governance in Japan: From the Viewpoints of Management, Accounting, and the Market / Edition 1

by N. Demise, Y. Miwa, M. Nabayashi, Y. Nakoshi

Overview

In Japan, the problem of corporate governance has been cogently argued in the field of social science for the past decade, and the issue has also been taken up separately in law, business administration, and accounting.This book, however, is the first to take a general overview of corporate governance with respect to management, risk management, accounting, and the capital markets. Corporate governance in the broad sense must include stakeholders with various interests while taking into consideration the sometimes unscrupulous affairs of companies and bankruptcies of big businesses, along with today’s increasing numbers of mergers and acquisitions.Both the company manager and the institutional investor have begun to be more concerned about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and socially responsible investment. After 2003, the issue of CSR began to be taken up more frequently by the media in Japan,and study meetings and committees associated with the Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry, Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare were established.These trends are evidence of significant changes in Japanese corporate governance.The study presented here proposes that a company should play a social role to bring about a sustainable society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784431309192
Publisher:	Springer Japan
Publication date:	08/23/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Four Approaches to Corporate Governance.- Management and Corporate Governance.- Moral Hazard in Corporate Governance.- Accounting and Corporate Governance.- Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance.- Corporate Governance in Japan.- Institutional Investors Exercising Shareholder Voting Rights in Japan.- Board of Directors.- Accounting and Disclosure in Japan.- Managerial Judgment Hazard in Corporate Governance.- Corporate Governance in Global Economy.- The Effect of Global Shareholder Activism on the Japanese Financial System and the Japanese Corporation.- OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.